Allure of the nation : : the cultural and historical debates in late qing and Republican China / / by Tze-ki Hon.

• Superior document: Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume 11
• VerfasserIn: Hon, Tze-ki,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Ideas, history, and modern China ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Covering half a century, from 1895 to 1945, The Allure of the Nation examines three interlocking aspects of Chinese nationalist modernity: (1) the quest to balance global connectivity and ethnic authenticity; (2) the desire to balance national unity and local autonomy; (3) the drive to balance history’s place as a tool of political propaganda and as a weapon used to critique orthodoxy and political suppression. By viewing the nation as a cluster of spatial-temporal relations that link individuals to a territorial state, this book provides a different view of early twentieth-century China where the party-state did not have full control of political and cultural affairs, and alternative political perspectives (such as local self-government and democratic aristocracy) could be freely expressed.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Balancing the Competing Claims in a New Global Order -- 2 Educating the Chinese Citizens -- 3 Sino-Babylonianism before and after the Great War -- 4 A Nation of Moderation versus a Nation of Extremes -- 5 China’s Cultural and Ethnic Diversity -- 6 A New Aristocracy of the Chinese Republic -- 7 Contemporary Meanings of the Sui-Tang Period (581–907) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.